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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「按強助弱」, with details below.

We’re presenting the idiom 「按強助弱」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Press: Suppress. Suppress violence and help the weak

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

àn qiáng zhù ruò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

on3 keung4 jo6 yeuk6

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.